The delegation discussed the disturbing rise in violence and rhetoric against European Jewish communities since Operation Protective Edge brought defensive conflict to Israel in the summer of 2014.

Read excerpts from an article written in the European Jewish Press, below:

Other speakers included Stéphane Teicher, Vice- President of B’nai B’rith France and Jane Braden-Golay, President of the European Union of Jewish Students.

“The fact that anti-Semitism becomes ordinary to the eyes of the civil society is a matter of concern,” said Teicher, who noted the indifference of the population. “There was no mass reaction in France following grave anti-Semitic developments of protests in Paris during last summer Israeli Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza.”

But he sees also matters of hope, citing the “very strong commitment of the French government not to tolerate anti-Semitism and its actions,” the fact that the January attacks in Paris against a kosher supermarket and in Copenhagen against a synagogue “clearly showed the clear link between radical Islamism and anti-Semitism.”

“Muslim leaders understand that the French Muslim community is under threat too,” Teicher added